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To: mph who wrote (18225)	5/10/2006 6:47:11 PM
From: MrLucky	Read Replies (2) of 542957

Some people seem to believe that incident is a good word for describing a situation where people are leaping from a skyscraper to avoid the heat and flame of jet fuel. I don't. Some people seem to believe that because the 9/11 commission, or some politician(s) used the word, it must be the gospel for describing a catastrophic event. I don't. If incident is the operative word, then each time a bunch Iraqis are car bombed to death, it is merely an incident. A suicide bomber in Palestine that kills a couple dozen people enjoying a pizza in Israel is just another incident. Thousands starving or dying of AIDs in Africa is one or more incidents. I wonder if Bono would agree. A couple weeks back the WAPO could not bring itself to use the word terrorist(s) in describing the senseless murder of a teacher in front of his students in a Bagdhad classsroom. If I recall, they beheaded him. Some posters on this thread took exception to my view of the WAPO description. Maybe they are subscribers. ;-) No matter. We all have an opinion. Some of us are better nit pickers than others. <g> Thanks for the input.

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